By Yinka Adegoke There was an intriguing front page cover by the Angolan newspaper, Expansão, this week. It declared, “Every Angolan owes $745 to China”. It also listed debt to other countri... Read more

If everything goes according to plan, then 92 year old Dr Mahathir Mohammed who ruled Malaysia for over two decades before leaving power in 2003 is back in power after his coalition won the... Read more

A smart African president at the White House is on a world stage. He can convert every minute of it to productive outcomes depending on steps he or she takes as well as what he or she says a... Read more

For those who might not have heard the story of the Hummingbird as created and popularised by the late Prof Wangari Mathai, here is one version of it as expertly told at the just concluded ‘... Read more

There is nothing new in Prof Deborah Brautigam dismissing American perception of China as a bogeyman in Africa. The John Hopkins University don has said that too many times, most specificall... Read more

Arusha, the Tanzanian city where the late President Julius Nyerere declared ‘Ujamaa’, (his cultural Socialism) 51 years ago is again the venue of a possible new declaration about getting the... Read more

The March 2018 Presidential run-off has come and gone but what was playing out and how did that happen? This is what this piece responds. This is the second and concluding part. By Yusuf Ban... Read more

Corruption trials appear to have seized the world this weekend, taking along with it former presidents in South Korea, South Africa and Brazil. Park Geun-hye, immediate past president of Sou... Read more

President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana has formally explained what is involved in an expanded facility deal between the United States and Ghana. He has put it to peace in the ECOWAS sub-region a... Read more